04-23-2018, 11:27 PM
I am not sure if climate change is happening.
I have seen pictures of what the glaciers around here looked like at one time, and they look nothing like that now-they are much smaller. Is it cyclic? Will it one day go back to being that way again?
Are the polar caps really shrinking?
I do know that human activity affects the earth. How can it not? How can chemicals and trash be good for the air, the land, and the water? It is not.
Where I lived is a prime example of an area that was not taken care of in the 30's and 40's and had to be cleaned up. It was a copper mine where the original mining company left the tailings on the side of a mountain in these huge piles.
Now it has been taken care of-but will have to be continually monitored and cleaned. Fish have returned and the health of the area has improved-but it is a continuous process.
I watched my state and the surrounding states and Canada burn last year-what is that from? Why is everything so dry? Is it because we are not doing controlled burning anymore-and have changed those practices?
There are always multiple answers and causes to these problems that present themselves-they used to dredge the waters in Western Washington in the streams-so the rivers wouldn't flood the people's houses that decided they should live on the river banks-then they stopped doing that becuase it destroyed habitat and salmon runs-now you have flooding. But people should not be living on the banks of rivers-if they do they should know the risks.
I have seen pictures of what the glaciers around here looked like at one time, and they look nothing like that now-they are much smaller. Is it cyclic? Will it one day go back to being that way again?
Are the polar caps really shrinking?
I do know that human activity affects the earth. How can it not? How can chemicals and trash be good for the air, the land, and the water? It is not.
Where I lived is a prime example of an area that was not taken care of in the 30's and 40's and had to be cleaned up. It was a copper mine where the original mining company left the tailings on the side of a mountain in these huge piles.
Now it has been taken care of-but will have to be continually monitored and cleaned. Fish have returned and the health of the area has improved-but it is a continuous process.
I watched my state and the surrounding states and Canada burn last year-what is that from? Why is everything so dry? Is it because we are not doing controlled burning anymore-and have changed those practices?
There are always multiple answers and causes to these problems that present themselves-they used to dredge the waters in Western Washington in the streams-so the rivers wouldn't flood the people's houses that decided they should live on the river banks-then they stopped doing that becuase it destroyed habitat and salmon runs-now you have flooding. But people should not be living on the banks of rivers-if they do they should know the risks.